It has been three months since my new work at “Initium”, a new media startup that focuses on in-depth investigative reports and data-driven reports. The first project is finally out. Interested readers can move to http://legco.initiumlab.com/. The timeline: March 2014 – Tutorial Notes on scraping and visualising HK Legco data...

It has been 1 year since our initial posting of the political spectrum of Hong Kong. Our Google Analytics ID shows that the blog post attracted 7000+ PVs and 6000+ unique visitors in a few days. The article and figure also appeared in TheHouseNews and numerous Facebook discussion threads, whose...

I have been using markdown [1] for quite a while and feel it hard to extend in some way. People have created a lot of dialects to extend it and the fragmentation problem is very serious. Let’s discuss a fictitious “Markdown 2.0” (MD2) in this post. Conclusion First I think...

The Slides I just come across a set of old slides by Paul Adams, which presents the core idea behind G+. The slides are worth to read. There are more observations than those discussed in this post. Here are the slides: Short notes (for me): Observe the multiple facets of...

Decentralized Social Network (DSN) is a well motivated topic now. Compared with centralized services, it does not expose a single point of failure and may provide more control over your account. There are many other benefits that I can not afford a thorough survey here. See the Why page of...

Background I was trying to get involved in the IndieWebCamp these days. Setting up IRC can ensure a quick feedback from community members. Here are some clients recommend by the community members. I tried “xChat Azure”. It crashes very often. It seems that every time I roam between different wifi...

Take Home Message Meta Social Network will be future landscape Cross platform socialization is the main stream in the near future User-centric network is the core concept to succeed (at least survive). Social Networking Services All services that help people to socialize are regarded as Social Networking Services (SNS). What...

Background I have been running an instance of SNSRouter for about 8 months. I configured several channels: Two Renren accounts One SinaWeibo accounts One TencentWeibo accounts One Gmail account One Twitter account Some RSS feeds After running it for so long, the sqlite DB becomes about 3GB in size. I...